I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
MELINDA GATESI felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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